THE HERALD

Greetings,

We will enable Free Character Transfers from Glamorgan cluster (Avalon, Dartmoor, Logres, Lyonesse and Stonehenge) to Ywain Cluster from Wednesday, 06/22 on. The ‘/freexfer’ command will become available for all characters on the cluster from the afternoon EDT on (evening CEST).

We invite you to read our Free Character Transfer Guide carefully, especially if you are a guild leader. There is no difference between any of the servers in the Ywain cluster if you simply wish to play with your friends and guild. However, if you are looking to transfer your houses and wish to ensure that you and all of your friends end up in the same neighborhood, you should all transfer to the same Ywain server. We recommend that you use the upcoming weekend to scout out the housing zones on the different Ywain servers to find a neighborhood that you might like and discuss with your friends and guildmates before transferring.

We’ll see you in the frontiers!

We are happy to announce a 25% sale for the 3- and 6-month time code for Dark Age of Camelot. The offer has started today and will be available until the 23rd of June.

Check it out at Origin – the new EA store.
 

If you follow us on Facebook you might have noticed reappearing News from the Frontlines. Over the last ten weeks the Battle Herald has posted reports like this on April 17th:

Again Albion’s frontiers were devastated by marauding hordes from Midgard and Hibernia. Hibernia established a beachhead around Caer Berkstead while Midgard temporarily dominated the west of the frontiers. Albion managed to hold onto Midgard’s strength relic but lost theirs to Midgard when the gate of Castle Excalibur was broke open Sunday afternoon and Enoch carried it away.
 

The Battle Herald could barely keep up with the action – Albion’s relic was gone when major Albion forces lead by Slapmefrist started to re-claim their frontier. The Battle Herald witnessed fights around Caer Erasleigh when Midgardian fighters following Grrball tried to keep hold of their beachhead.

After the situation changed around midnight and the Horn of Valhalla was stolen by Madesen and his men, our Herald had the chance to get a short statement from King Erik: ‘Damn Can-wearers think they can beat us? No bløødy way! By Odin we’ll grab ‘em by their [deleted by editorial] and then we’ll bash’em all day løng, yeah!’

The Battle Herald roams the frontiers once in a while and is always looking for conflicts. He won’t be able to be at all places at the same time, though, which means that his focus might be different than yours. We invite you to share your impression of an interesting raid or successful defense with us. To do so please go to the Feedback Form, select Battle Herald as category, and your story might be the next to be told on our website.

We are looking forward to hearing of your battle tales.

Greetings,

We will be bringing the BioWare Mythic account center offline for a short maintenance at 11:00 AM EDT today.

We anticipate the account center will be back online within 2 hours no later than 13:00 PM EDT.

During this time all account center related service will be unavailable, including billing and character transfers.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

The free character transfers from Glamorgan to Ywain have to be postponed for a week.  The transfers will now be available starting Wednesday, 06/29/2011.

The reason for this delay is that we want to ensure the most pleasant and smooth transfer experience as possible. To guarantee this, we’ll be upgrading the hard drives on the Ywain server in a maintenance downtime on the 29th. We will also deploy patch 1.109b during this downtime. The free character transfers to Ywain will start right after the downtime. Please make sure that you have read our Transfer Guide.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

Greetings,

Our new Dark Age of Camelot website has been live for a little over three weeks, and it’s time for its first update. We have received a lot of feedback and we are currently implementing some of your suggestions as well as fine tuning our concept. In the not so distant future (aka ‘soon ™’) you might notice changes like smaller banners, more consistent news blocks and others.

As you may have noticed, the old Herald was brought down before we were able to define and to migrate all of the content that is important to you. This change was due to site security reasons. Since then we have added some of the content that was regularly requested, like the Mount section which is in process of being re-established. We are also pleased to announce the opening of the Class Library section. This is a combination of the old Style and Spell Libraries reorganized into a more accessible format. While updating the styles, we were able to identify a display bug with the delves of several weapon styles. This bug will be fixed in 1.110, but the website has already been updated with all the correct information – it is more accurate than the game itself.
 
Last but not least, we have received a lot of questions about the Realmwar page; specifically the character, guild and housing search. To make them more stable and secure, we are in the process of rebuilding these pages from scratch. So please be patient with us and we will keep you updated about the process.

The website is constantly improving and we’ll continue to add new content in the weeks to come. If there is something you are still missing, please let us know via the Feedback Form.

See you in the Frontiers!

After a lot of back and forth skirmishes without major lands gains, Sunday evening saw the wrath of Albion renewed, when the troops of Billings and Rescu joined forces to recapture Albions relics which were both held in Hibernia. After gaining a foothold in Dun da Behnn the Albion invaders quickly laid siege on Dun nGed and took it while Hibernia defenders were distracted by a simultaneous attack of Albion on Ailinne Outpost and a Migard raid on Dun Crimthain.   

The assault on Ailinne Outpost was successful; a Hibernia detachment arriving shortly before the tower fell to the enemy came too late. The following attack on Dun Ailinne itself, where Merlin’s Staff is stored, was thrown back by Hibernia’s defender, so the Albion forces retreated and rushed through Traitor’s Pass to take Scathaig Outpost and then storm the valley of Dun Scathaig, where the stolen Scabbard of Excalibur was held.

With most of the Hibernian forces concentrated around Dun Ailinne, the few guards and defenders of Dun Scathaig were no match for the resolute press and Albion’s army was soon left with the task to transport their relic all the way back over the Irish Sea to its temple in Forest Sauvage.

Asked for his opinion, King Lug Lamfhota stated:

‘Ah well, these bigoted Albions and their senseless struggle. Who would care about a dirty, empty scabbard anyway? Our sacred realm had no use for it. We fully expect to have Our spear back in the near future – before it acquires a displeasing smell.’

This day sees Merlin’s Staff still stashed in Dun Ailinne while Lug’s Spear of Lightning is secured in Fensalir Faste. How long will this situation last?

Update 6:50pm EDT: The account center is back online.

Greetings,

We will be bringing the BioWare Mythic account center offline for a short maintenance today, July 12th at 6:00pm EDT.
We anticipate the account center will be back online within 45 minutes no later than 6:45 pm EDT.

During this time all account center related service will be unavailable, including billing and character transfers.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

Update 1:30am CEST: Our ISP just informed us that the downtime needs to be extended and that additional outages might follow. The servers might be unavailable until the end of the planned window at 6:00am CEST.

Greetings,

The Internet Service Provider of our European Data Center will carry out a network maintenance on Thursday, 14th of July. During the maintenance Glamorgan and all archived European servers will be unavailable for login or characters transfer.
The outage is supposed to last not longer than 60 minutes and will happen in the window from 0:00 am CEST to 6:00 am CEST.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

Greetings,

In the last Producer’s Letter we announced a new Dark Age of Camelot wiki as one of the projects we had planned.  The goal was to allow an easy entry to the immense knowledge surrounding the game and to improve the overall experience both inside and outside the game world.

The wiki had a soft launch together with the new website, and was quickly discovered by some of you. It has since grown by hundreds of articles – especially regarding classes and zones, and the structure of the wiki was improved as well.

Several players have already became regular contributors, amongst which Etaew is most active, with a whole list of ideas on how to improve the wiki.

From today on you will find a direct link to the wiki in the right corner of the news box, next to the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube buttons. Why don’t you check it out and contribute your knowledge about your favorite template, skill set, quest or anything else people might find useful?